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This is a gross oversimplification, especially washing in a family (> 1 person). 1. Sorting - when you buy clothing, do you take handling instructions into acc
by tropdrop 7y ago
This is a gross oversimplification, especially washing in a family (> 1 person).
1. Sorting - when you buy clothing, do you take handling instructions into account? Accounting for handling is very hard! Good luck shopping online, hunting through instruction tags hidden on sides of clothes, all while keeping price reasonable. I do not like shopping, so I choose the first thing that looks ok and is comfortable - I am often left with unpleasant surprises when laundering. Some dryclean only, some handwash-only, some fine with washing but no dryer, some with dryer ok but tumble-dry only.
2. Do you have an in-unit washer? I do not - I traverse 7 flights of stairs to communal apartment laundry room.
3. Do you need to use quarters for the machine? If yes, this takes an extra trip to bank beforehand.
4. 7 flights of stairs again to transfer some of the clothes to a dryer, others ...
5. ... Need to be line-dried and hung, somewhere.
6. Finally, the clothes that could be normally washed must be folded and put away, not stuffed into a drawer (even simple t-shirts get wrinkled this way).
"washing" is not just pressing a button.
- return1 7y agoSteps 1 and 6 are optional overcomplications, unless you wear fancy/sensitives on daily basis. Lining up clothes, 5 minutes max and they can ‘fold’ and straighten right on the line - I regularly pick my jeans and t shirts right off the hanger. Sure you can spend hours doing it by the book, but that s a choice, no longer a necessity The thing thats terrible time sink is ironing
- Bombthecat 7y agoYou also paid for the washer and water and electricity... With your working time...
- korm 7y agoStep 1 becomes progressively easier after each wash. Steps 2, 3, 4 are completely eliminated by having an in-unit washer as you said, like most families in western Europe do at least. Step 6 is also pretty quick with practice.
- organsnyder 7y agoStep 6 is quick for a couple of adults. Add in kids, though, and takes an order of magnitude longer—especially when the kids are both young enough to be going through multiple outfits per day and are asleep (thereby restricting the ability to put clothes away) during the best times to do chores.
- glenneroo 7y agoYou skipped IMO the most time-intensive step #5 - hanging the clothes to dry.